Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - No Choice... | 11/13/23

Episode Date: November 13, 2023

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into your refrigerator to soak up smells, right? That's what the baking soda box is for. And you have to replace it every so often. And I don't know the time frame. You just kind of put it in there. I'm sure I'm sure I probably don't replace it soon enough. but they do get replaced but I didn't know this according to this story that I read this morning people are using rolls of toilet paper to absorb smells in your

refrigerator I did not know people I didn't know you could do that first of all I don't know that I want a roll of toilet paper in my refrigerator but apparently it works so you have to replace the roll about every three weeks and you you should also only put the roll in your fridge straight from the packaging. Wait, what? And not put it near your toilet. Oh, no, really. Can I use it after I pull it out of the fridge in a bathroom?

Stop it. Okay. So, apparently, you can use a roll of toilet paper straight from the packaging in your refrigerator, replace it every three weeks to absorb the smells in your refrigerator. Forget about that baking soda hack, okay? Don't do the baking soda hack. I'm still going to use the baking soda hack. I don't want a roll of toilet paper in my refrigerator.

I don't know. I don't know that it actually works. Apparently it does, but I don't want the roll of toilet paper in my refrigerator. Now, apparently, you can use activated charcoal and vanilla extract, soak a cottonball in vanilla and place it in the refrigerator. Okay. Is that going to make it smell like a bakery?

Maybe. And I guess some refrigerators today also have the ultraviolet light filters to handle the odors. And so then there's another hack that I was reading about this morning that talked about crumpled newspaper and crushed charcoal. And you have to replace the newspaper every day for about a week. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that once a week.

I barely can remember to change out the baking soda box. And I don't have a timer on that. It's just kind of like, oh, yeah, it's probably time to change it out. And we change it out. So anyway, if you want to try something new and you're tired of that old baking soda hack, of getting rid of odors in your refrigerator. Just stick a roll of toilet paper in your refrigerator. If you want to do that, you go right ahead.

But I can guarantee there will not be a roll of toilet paper in my refrigerator. Welcome! Welcome to Chewing the Fat. All right, a couple of recalls to worry about. IKEA is recalling more than 25,000 mirrors. sold in the U.S. and Canada because they could fall and break, potentially harming consumers. Can't they all potentially fall and break? The IKEA Lytan mirrors, about 14,600 sold in the U.S. and 10,500 sold in Canada, have plastic fittings that attach the mirror to the wall, and those can break,

causing the mirror to fall, posing a laceration hazard to consumers. Yeah, you don't want to get hit by that. So about 22,400 of the mirrors were previously recalled in March of 2023. That's right. I remember that. So now they've received more than 65 reports globally about mirrors, including 56 in the previous recall. No injuries have been reported. Yeah, so they said, hey, we're going to recall these and people started going, and mine broke too.

It fell down. It just missed me. So the recalled mirrors were sold in stores and online between December of 2019 and June of 2023 for about 2999 to 5599. Okay, they are immediately being recalled out of an abundance of caution. You can contact IKEA and order replacement wall fittings free of charge. So be careful out there. They involve all sizes of the Leetan, L-E-T-A-N flat mirrors, which are frameless,

about 38 inches high and we're sold in widths of 23, 31, 39, and 47 inches. So if you have those, now's the time to either replace the old wall hangers or the entire mirror itself. But don't walk by it because it just might fall. Then we have children's nightgowns. I know it's not girls' nightgowns anymore. It's children's nightgowns. Okay. The children's nightgowns fail to meet the flammability standards for children's sleepwear,

posing a risk of burn injuries to children. Do they just automatically go up and burn? Oh, no, no, no. they don't they just if they were to get close to a fire they would burn up so you can uh you know if you purchased uh the nightgowns for girls oh this does say uh the story is talking about children's nightgowns but underneath the nightgowns themselves they say recalled nightgowns for girls long how dare they long vintage soft cotton sleepwear full length night dress so they sold about 13,300 of them the uh imoons small

I, M-O-O-O-N-Z-Z. This is almost like their miniature mumoos by Jeffie. They're made in China, and the fiber content and the washing instructions are printed on the SOU-N-side seam label. So they are... They don't meet the flammability standards of children's sleepwear. So be sure to get a refund and turn those back in

if you purchase those for one of your children, whether it be a little girl or a... little boy interesting story out of washington dc apparently there's been a rash of cars being stolen and broken into huh in washington dc go figure well somebody tried to steal a secret service car and uh they did not get away with it it doesn't sound like they knew it was a secret service car or the original story was it was an unmarked secret service car do secret service drive around in marked cars are there actual Secret Service cars driving around Washington, D.C., I highly doubt that. But it was an unmarked Secret Service vehicle.

It was the vehicle that is used to protect the granddaughter of President Joe Biden. She is the daughter of Hunter. Amazing. She has Secret Service protection. Isn't that interesting? Anyway, so three people were trying to break into the car. Secret Service says one of their officers fired. at the crowd.

I don't know if he fired up in the air or if he actually missed what he was firing to hit someone and missed or fired to just warn them away. Doesn't say it says that no one was injured. So we shall see. Sounds really like they didn't know. The thieves didn't know it was a secret service car. And in particular, a secret service car that was assigned to, you know, be there for the president's granddaughter.

Because, you know, even the dumbest criminals, you would think. would leave that vehicle alone. But in today's world, hey, this is what you get. This is what you've created. So this is what you get. I'm glad no one was harmed. They said the perpetrators got in a red car and drove away.

So they haven't even caught them yet. And will they actually go after someone for attempting to break into a vehicle because it was a Secret Service vehicle and it was assigned to the president's granddaughter? Or will it be just like any other? a potential crime in Washington, D.C., where we just look the other way.

We shall see. I wonder, I'm pretty sure, pretty sure we're not going to look the other way. Could be wrong, though. One thing I'm not wrong about, Quinn Pittman's goat soap. That's right. Old school. Hand-pored, made from scratch.

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Get your 10% off with your total order, QPgoatsoap.com. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So I think on Friday we talked about the Marvel's movie opening up and they were hoping to get, you know, I don't know, 75, 80 million. And, well, they got 110 million globally. But here in the U.S., they got a measly 47 million. That is not good. So not doing too well for the old Marvel's movie.

I mean, they got 110 million global, which. you know, is pretty good. But 40, they expected a lot more than 47 million domestically, and they did not get it. So good luck, God bless to the Marbles movie. I see where the new Grammy nominations are out, the 67th Grammy nominations are out. And Cizor, S-Z-A, Cizar has the leading nominee

with nine other key nominees include Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodriguez, Boy Genius, Miley Cyrus, John Batiste, Victoria Monnet, Billy Eilish, all of whom will be competing against Sizah for Record of the Year. Now, is there a category that Taylor Swift won't win? I don't know. I was looking at, well, the one she's not nominated for, she won't win those. But she's going to have a battle with Sizah, like Record of the Year. You know, those are all the ones that are fighting for Record of the Year, the ones that I mentioned. album of the year same group of people

so we'll see i mean Taylor Swift has got a she's she's the queen now right she's the queen so maybe Cizah is the new queen but she can't take away from Taylor so we'll see looking forward to seeing who actually

wins all these artists best new artist Gracie Abrams Fred again Ice Spice Jelly Roll Coco Jones Noah Kahan K.A. K.A. H-A-H-A-N and Victoria Amune.

So we'll see. Oh, and war and treaty. And so why do they put that way down there on their best new artist? Producer of the year. Yeah, songwriter of the year. Taylor's not in those. She won't win those.

Best pop solo performance. Flowers, Miley Cyrus. Paint the Town Red by Doja Cat. What was I made for from Barbie, Billy Eilish? Vampire from Olivia Rodrigo. an anti-hero Taylor Swift. Miley might win that. I like the Flowers solo performance from Miley.

But who knows? We'll see. Zaza is not nominated for Best Pop Solo. She's not a pop artist. That's probably why. Thousands of Miles. Oh, Miley Cyrus, this is Best Pop Duo Group performance. Thousands of Miles.

Miley Cyrus featuring Brandy Carlis. Candy Necklace, Lannadale, featuring John Patee. Never Felt So Alone. the labyrinth featuring billy islea karma taylor swift featuring ice spice and ghost in the machine zizar featuring phoebe brujer she might win that

uh kind of give us caesar the best pop duo and group performance he ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha the new superstar so we'll see you can quote me on that z z a ca cae za is uh the new superstar best rock performance arctic monkeys sculptures of anything goes Black Puma is more than a love song. Boy, genius, not strong enough.

Foo Fighters rescued and Metallica. I look at Turner. So I might go to Metallica. Although Metallica is best metal performance, too. So they'll win one of those. Either best metal performance or best rock performance and probably throw them a metal Grammy and say, here you go, get out of here.

Best rock song. Best rock song. Boy, genius, not strong enough. Foo Fighters rescued Olivia Rodriguez Ballad of a Homestchooled girl Queens of the Olivia Rodriguez from Best Rock song Queens of the Stone Age

Emotion Sickness and the Rolling Stones get nominated for angry They might throw that in I give the Stones a Grammy just to have them part of the new show

That'd be kind of cool Best R&B performance Chris Brown Some are too hot Back to Love from Robert Glasper featuring Sir and Alex Isley. Oh, man, that might be good.

I see you, Coco Jones. How does it make you feel? Victoria Monnet. And Kill Bill, Cesar. So I'd like to hear, I haven't heard the back to love with Robert Glassper and featuring Sir and Alex Isley. That would be, that might be good. Best R&B album, Babyface, Girls Night Out, Coco Jones,

What I Didn't Tell You, that's Deluxe version. Emily King, special occasion. Jaguar 2, Victoria Mona, Clear 2 Soft Life EP by Summer Walker. Okay, well, good luck. Thanks. We got nominated to live with that. So, congratulations to all the nominees for their new Grammys.

Best Progressive R&B album. Best R&B. Oh, yeah. Best R&B song, Coco Jones, ICU. Hallie Angel, Robert Glasper. Oh, that's back to love again with, I got to hear that. Sizah, snooze. Victoria Monet, I'm my mama.

then best progressive R&B album Slack since I have a lover and that's six Lack. Diddy, the love album Off the Grid. Terrence Martin, James Flatterhorn Nova. Janella, I'm on the Age of Pleasure and SZAAS. SOS.

So, congratulations to all the people who were nominated for a Grammy. And the list goes on and on. It could be, you know, Taylor Swift, they might as well just give her an award. Hey, the best artist for on tour that made the most money ever and we're all just living in her shadow and then we'll give it the not grimmies to the other the other nominees for producing a content that was still good but not up to

t swift oh it's just uh you know it's a taylor swift world now and we're all just living in it aren't we yeah you know right sad i didn't say i agreed with it but it's just the way it is Okay, speaking of the Grammys and the way everybody's going to be all dressed up for the 2024 Grammy Awards, I also found out over the weekend that there's such a thing as lab-grown diamond jewelry. Did you know that? Lab-grown diamond jewelry. Okay, there's a brand. It was an ad in some email story that I was reading, and I thought, lab-grown diamonds?

Yeah, and there's this brand that uses 100% renewable wind energy to create the, stunning lab-grown diamonds. So you can feel extra good about adding their studs, drop earrings, tennis bracelets, adjustable pendants, and loose stones to your cart. Oh, great. So it's lightbox jewelry.

Lightbox jewelry was who the ad was for. But it's amazing lab-grown diamonds. I never heard it. I never heard about it. So lab-grown diamonds are diamonds that were grown by scientists in a lab. They share the same chemical makeup as natural diamonds and are optically identical. The biggest differences between the natural and lab-created diamonds is how they're made and how

rare they are. Oh my gosh. Laboratory-grown diamonds share an identical chemical makeup to natural diamonds, both consisting of pure carbon. This is their website, by the way. The difference between lab-grown diamonds and natural diamonds are how they're formed. Yeah, we covered that already. Natural diamonds formed below the surface of the earth over millions of years.

and some people would question that it's over millions of years, but okay, if you say that, whereas lab-grown diamonds can be created in a lab over a period of a few weeks. Lightbox diamonds are grown to match the chemical properties of a natural diamond, and the finish stone is optically identical. You can find more details on how they're made below.

Okay, let's go. They're becoming more popular alternative, are they? Or are you just hoping that they are because you've got a product to sell? But anyway, this is their website, Lightbox, Lab-Gromon. diamonds. It's amazing. They show their factory on how they make their lab-grown diamonds. It's fascinating. I would love to tour their factory to see how, you know, see them made.

Would be awesome. There's a few methods used to create lab-grown diamonds. Typically, lab-grown diamonds start with a tiny lab diamond like a seed. The seeds are placed in a chamber called the plasma reactor. Love those plasma reactors. In the case of CVD synthesis, or a large mechanical press if manufactured by HPHT. Then, depending on the technology,

use, some combination of heat, pressure, and the carbon source are used to make the crystals grow layer by layer. So, CVD stands for chemical vapor disposition. HBHBHT stands for high pressure, high temperature. in nature, it takes millions of years. I question that.

For diamonds to form in a lab, we can grow a one-carat stone in about two weeks. So there you have it. Man, if you're looking for a gift for Christmas, you can, get yourself some lightbox lab-growing diamonds. Since I just logged down to their website

to tell you about them, Sarah, their chat GPT computer person, just logged on their website saying, Let me know if you have any questions. So I'm just saying, I don't know if Sarah is real or not, but Lightbox Laboratory Grown Diamonds is on the case, and they want my business desperately.

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I was a little concerned. As I was just sitting down to record the show today, I looked on what was trending on X. And it was Bill Murray. It was one of the trending names. And I thought, oh, crazy time of name like that trend. That means that he died. It was really bummed.

But it wasn't. They were just promoting, they're promoting the new movie, the new Ghostbusters movie, which the trailer looks really good. That was, you know, they're being promoted. They're all happy that they can promote the strikes over,

at least they think it is. so they're going to go they can promote movies now which is what they said about the marvels movie that they weren't able to promote it that's why it didn't have a big a big bump at the box office uh-huh but anyway uh they uh it's not bill murray he's not dead so i know that it's about the garfield movie he's not garfield they wanted him to be garfield i think that was part of the argument uh chris pratt i think is garfield in the new movie um and so they're saying that bill murray was better, yada, yeah, yeah, but they're also talking about the new Ghostbusters movie. So he's not dead. So thankfully, that's good. That's good news. I like Bill. But we do have Marianne Trump

Barry, Donald Trump's sister, Marianne Trump Barry, dead at the age of 86. She was found in her apartment, her Fifth Avenue apartment, around 4 a.m. I don't know, I don't know if people

normally stop in at 4 a.m. to Marianne's apartment. I'm not sure what the story is there, but that's when she was found. There were no signs of trauma or foul play. So it couldn't have been that, because they would have told us right away. Stop looking at me like that.

It doesn't say that. It just says there were no signs of trauma or foul play. So Marianne Trump buried out at the age of 86. She had some, you know, she had some things to say about Don on some audio conversations that were published by the Washington Post. She said some bad things about our president, or I guess he was the president at the time, but that's, you know, she was secretly recorded.

She talked about, and then she said some things in her book that she couldn't really back up with anything other than what she believed about Don, about him taking the SATs or whatever, saying he got into Pennsylvania, University of Penn, because he had somebody else take the exams, that SATs or whatever. that's what I believe she said. So, I mean, obviously, Don and family, her account is absurd. So Donald C. Let's see, let's see, he's got, he's got, I think, is he the last one now? Because his youngest brother died in 2020

at 71 years of old. His other brother, Fred Trump, died of a heart attack in 1981 at age 42, right? And then he's got this sister, Mary Trump or uh right the niece no okay so Mary Trump is the niece that was

recording and hates Donald and this sister Marianne Trump Barry is also the aunt of Mary who is saying bad things anyway the whole thing is kind of alluded but I think Donna that makes him the last one right well maybe there's Elizabeth

Elizabeth is another sister I think she's still alive don't mean to put you in the grave you had Elizabeth. Sorry. So, don't worry about that. Never mind. He's not the last one. Getting pretty close, though. And then we have Tim Scott. No, he did not pass away, but he did suspend his presidential campaign.

He announced his suspension of his presidential campaign in a televised interview on Fox News with his buddy Trey Gowdy. And apparently the staff, was like, wait, what? Did he just say we're postponing our, we're suspending our presidential campaign? Did he just say we're out of a job? Yes, he did.

And he said it on Fox News with Tregouty. So Tim Scott has decided that his presidential campaign needs to take a pause. And by that, I mean suspend his campaign because that's got to be, that's a financial thing. You don't ever make it go away. You just suspend it so that presidential money that you have raised sits there.

and a nice little fund. I don't know who gets it, but I'm sure it's not going to be me. Speaking of a nice little fund, I see where Texas A&M fired head coach of their football team, Jim Bo Fisher. Just incredible they fired him after this weekend.

He won big this weekend. Apparently, he is firing was in the works after last week's game, and they didn't want to fire him right before this week's game. So they waited until after this week's game. game and fired him on Sunday. I was nice of them to, you know, think of that. Like it really matters.

I mean, he just signed a new deal in 2021. $95 million guaranteed. $95 million 10-year deal, guaranteed. So the school will pay, I think, it's $76 million to buy out his deal. Okay. No problem. They owe him $19.2 million within 60 days, and then they have to pay him $7.2 million annually through 2031.

Wow. So, I mean, he doesn't even have to do anything. And even if he does, right, I think the way this contract is worded, and I have not read it. I have not seen it reported anywhere. I just know that they said from the very beginning that it was a guaranteed contract. So if he goes out and gets another gig, sometimes in the NFL and some of the contracts that the college coaches have, that if they go out and get another gig, then some of that money that their owed goes away and gets absorbed by the other school.

But the way I read this is that no matter what, he gets $7.2 million until 2031, no matter what he does. He can just sit there and play golf and smoke cigarettes and say, yeah, I used to coach for Texas A&M and get, you know, 7.2 million a year for the next six or seven years plus the 19.2 million right now, plus whatever he'd been paid prior to that. Just incredible. And Texas A&M has decided that his deal was not what they wanted to move forward. Wow. I mean, they just won. They won big against Mississippi State this weekend. Credible. They were six and four, four and three in the SEC. I mean, this school obviously, I guess, should have been better.

Everyone thought it was going to be better, and they weren't better than the six and four, four, and three in the SEC. But the SEC ain't easy. I mean, that's a whole deal. I mean, I heard, what's his face, Kirby Smart from Georgia say, on McAfee's show on Friday about our coach in, I think it was the Big Ten,

but I'm not sure. It might have been the Pack 12. And he said, he's welcome to come down here. And, you know, have a little SEC fun anytime he wants, because this ain't,

we ain't playing around. So, you know, amazing that they, that A&M let him go. Who they're going to get? These other coaches are still coaching. It's mid-season.

I mean, we're coming up on the end of the season. But it's the final part of the season, the final quarter of the season. teams are working hard to get where they need to be. Any coaches that Texas A&M wants or are good enough, they're busy coaching. I mean, Kirby Smart in Georgia's not going anywhere.

Harbaugh, maybe, maybe he, they run him off in Michigan. Are they going to take Harbaugh down at Texas A&M? They might. That actually might happen. If Michigan keeps up the fight against the Big Ten and the NCAA. Texas A&M may say, come on down to the SEC, Jim Harbaugh.

We got some money for you, and they'll leave you alone down here. They won't mess with you. That might actually happen. That might be what they're doing. Then you have Ohio State. He's not going anywhere. Florida State, he's not,

Noel's not going anywhere. Washington, Oregon, those guys aren't going anywhere. They've got monsters created there. Texas isn't going anywhere. Saban and Alabama's not going anywhere. I don't know who coaches Louisville. They're number nine in the country on the AP.

I'm not sure who the head coach of Louisville is. Oh, Jeffrey Scott Brougham. I'm not sure. I don't even mean he's the Louisville Cardinal coach. He's got them playing great. I just see while I'm looking up to the head coach of Louisville, I see where Zach Arnett fired as the Mississippi State head coach. He's the one that got his ass kicked by Texas A&M

who just fired Jimbo Fisher. Everybody's getting fired, and the season isn't even over yet. They're just saying to the assistant coaches, yeah, you're going to be the interim head coach. Go ahead. It's your program. We don't like it. Wow. Okay.

All right. No problem. And he doesn't have Jimbo Fisher contract money because he became the head coach after Mike Leach died down there in Mississippi State. And so apparently he was only getting paid $3 million a year. I know that sounds like, you know, that's a lot of money, but not in the SEC. I just told you what Jimbo is getting. So he was getting $3 million annually, the lowest in the SEC,

plus performance bonuses, which he definitely didn't reach. It also included a buyout favorable to the school paying just 50% of the remaining amount. So he signed a four-year deal last year, so he had what, maybe two or three years left at $3 million a year. So if he had three years left, he was owed $9 million and they only have to pay him, what, four and a half? half million. So still, I mean, he makes a little bit of money as they're kicking him out the door,

but they're kicking him out the door. So they're going to be looking for a coach already. Who's going to coach these teams? I don't know. You know, is Drinkowitz from Missouri going to go somewhere else after he's got Missouri number 11th in the country in the AP in the coaches poll and hopefully number 10 in the playoff poll? Missouri looked great, but I would be happy if Drinkowitz took another gig. But they're not going to let him go, not after this year. No, not after this year in Missouri. No way.

So I don't know who they're going to get coaching, man. I would not be surprised. You could quote me on this. I would not be surprised to see Jim Harbaugh be recruited and paid big, big guaranteed money to come down to Texas A&M. That would be huge for Texas A&M and Harbaugh. And not good for Missouri. Not good for a few other SEC teams either,

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Huh. So about a third to say it's extremely or very easy to know whether or how much to tip for different types of services. Okay, before I go on, I would just say that when you're out at a restaurant, it's always got to be 20% now, right? Between 15 and 20%, unless the service is really bad. And then you, you know, you drop it down to maybe 10% or maybe no, I mean, it's very, You can't walk out of a restaurant.

Not tipping. Can you? 21% say tipping is more of a choice, while 29% say it's more of an obligation. I feel like it's more of an obligation. The situations when people add a gratuity offer insight into new tipping landscape. Yeah, okay.

Dining at sit-down restaurants, 92%, a majority said they would tip 15% or less for an average sit-down meal. And it's my belief that it's 15% or more. not less but okay getting a haircut yeah they always expect a big tip have those bastards those hairstylists having food delivered yeah and we just were told

that the Uber was it Uber or Grubhub said that they see that whether you've tipped or not so it may be a while if you didn't leave a tip using a taxi or ride share service 61% yeah buying coffee see I question that No, I'm there to get coffee. I'm not going to leave a tip. Eating at a fast, casual restaurant, 12%.

Now, we talked a little bit about the computer ordering system in the past, where it comes up on the tipping screen, and that gives you 10, 20, or 30%, or other, you can do your own amount, right? And they also, I will say, the new computer screens, and I don't know that they all have this, but the new computer screens that I've seen also just leave the change as the tip, right? So if something is, you know, 10-50, you could make the bill $11 and you would leave 50 cents as a tip. I like doing that.

Actually, I like doing that because I believe that the computer shows up that you left a tip. I don't think it tells them how much you left because it goes into a pile, right? But it does say that you left a tip. So they give you, you get your better service. That's just my belief. Even if it shows that, even if it shows what small amount it was at, at least you attempted to leave a tip, right? And the computer says you left to, you know, you paid a tip.

It's 898, you know, leave the change. Yeah, I'll give you two cents. Just bring me my food. But I just, sometimes it just seems like we're getting to the extreme on tipping. I know, I know. But I do feel like when they ask you before you get your order, where you're paying for it before you get your food. because then I want to leave, I want to give you the change

so that you see that I tried to at least tip you a little bit so that you're at least going out of your way a little bit to serve me rather than no tip at all. You know, it's just, I know it's a weird thing. Tipflation is something that's really out of control. And it's just because we're doing so much on a computer screen now. Personally, I don't know how I feel about the sharing of tips. You know, I was looking at here, a broad majority of Americans, 72% say the fairest way would be for each server to keep all of the money they receive in tips.

Far fewer say the fairest would be for tips to be pooled together and then shared among the entire staff or among all servers. It's not uncommon for restaurants to require servers who, by nature, of their jobs, collect the most tips, to share tips with bartenders, food runners, tablebusters, hosts, and other workers such as tip pool or tipping out. arrangements are extensively regulated by the state or federal law. We don't need that. Stay the hell away from a government. Thank you. Certain workers may or may not be eligible to participate, depending on how they're paid.

So, you know, I kind of feel like maybe the servers should take it upon themselves to tip the other food runners and table busers and hosts like that. I don't think it should be mandated. But if it goes into a pile, like I think that's when you use a card and you tip from your card, that money probably goes into a pile at most restaurants. So if you have a server that you really want to just

you know, you thought they did an exceptional job and you want to give them a tip, then I would give them cash. Cash, cash. I kid, I kid because I can. Because who carries cash anymore? No one or very few people. Really, really, really weird.

So if you're going to go out to dinner, maybe you make sure that you have a you know a couple of bills in your pocket so that you could actually tip the server cash if need me but that might be just a silly thought oh i should have put this in who died today of megan rapino she's done have a nice day it's over uh she is done with her u.s soccer playing uh she is a u.s soccer legend is she uh with her final professional career Now, she helped the U.S. win two World Cup trophies and a gold and broads Olympic medals, so okay. And she got hurt three minutes into the final match of her professional career. Now, she believes that there's no God because she got hurt. She's super proud of her whole career, and she says there's no way God could possibly exist because she got hurt while playing soccer in the last game of her career. she believed that God doesn't exist because she got hurt in the last game of her career.

So she could not even fathom the idea that perhaps God is sending her another message. But that's not what she said. So, all right, I saw a post over the weekend that mentioned how politics works. And you know, I think it's pretty much true. So I'm going to read this post to you. And this is how politics works. Okay? I told my son, you will marry the girl I choose.

He said, no. I told him, she is Bill Gates' daughter. He said, okay. I called Bill Gates and said, I want your daughter to marry my son. Bill Gates said, no. I told Bill Gates, my son is the CEO of World Bank. Bill Gates said, okay. I called the president of World Bank and asked him to make

my son, the CEO. He said no. I told him, my son is Bill Gates' son-in-law. He said, okay, this is how politics work. That, my friends, is almost 100% true. Good luck making it work out for you, but it certainly works out for some, doesn't it? podcasts.